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A British mother facing 20 years in an Indonesian prison on drugs offences may
be back in the UK within weeks after a Bali court gave her an unexpectedly
light prison sentence yesterday.

Rachel Dougall, 39, who was accused of being part of a drug smuggling
syndicate, smiled and thanked court officials as Denpasar District Court
handed down a sentence of just one year after she was convicted of the
relatively minor crime of not reporting a drugs offence.

Her lawyer, Ari Soenardi, said that under Indonesian law, because she has
already been in jail for eight months while awaiting